cryptogamous
Americanadjective
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The cryptogamous nature of the essential cause of the disease has no positive proof, but only the probability of coincidence in its favor.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Azote and phosphorus having been abundantly found in several cryptogamous plants, an appeal to chemistry would be useless to determine whether this organized substance belonged to the animal or vegetable kingdom.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
After this, he remarks, one need not be surprised at the diffusion of the far lighter and smaller sporules of cryptogamous plants.
From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
Some of them undoubtedly have structures akin to those of the tree-like Club-mosses, as Williamson has well shown, and may have been cryptogamous.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William
Ever since fossil plants have been collected and studied, the broad fact has been apparent that the early plants—those of the Coal formation—were mainly cryptogamous, while in the Tertiary deposits the higher flowering plants prevailed.
From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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